World War I Sheet Music

The World War I digital sheet music collection is drawn from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library. It is composed of over 1,800 titles that relate in some way to the events of World War I, and the impact of that war on American society. There are patriotic songs, songs relating to specific military units, romantic songs of love and loss, comic songs, and songs that look to the war’s end.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

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When the sun goes down in France

words & music by Gilbert C. Tennant. For voice and piano. Caption title. "Dedicated to Our Boys at the Front." Advertisement for another song: p. [4]

When the sun goes down in France

words and music by Gilbert C. Tennant. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Could the dreams of a dreamer come true": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a bugler / E.H. Pfeiffer; photograph of Marval Gunn.

When the sun goes down in France

words and music by Gilbert C. Tennant. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Could the dreams of a dreamer come true": p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of a bugler / E.H. Pfeiffer; photograph of Marval Gunn.

When the sixty-ninth comes back

lyric by Joyce Kilmer ; music by Victor Herbert. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: "To the Fighting 165th Regiment" / Howard Chandler Chrisey, 1918.

When the old boat heads for home

by Earl Fuller. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for another song: p. [4] Cover illustration: ship at sea / Walton.

When the old boat heads for home

by Earl Fuller. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: soldiers waving from ship and an eagle / EW.

When the moon is shining somewhere in France

by Frederick Rath. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Col. George Vidmer. Advertisement for "Waiting for you": p. 2-3; "Play my wedding march in ragtime" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of battlefield at night / Starmer.

When the moon is shining somewhere in France

by Frederick Rath. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Dedicated to: Col. George Vidmer. Advertisement for "Waiting for you": p. 2-3; "Play my wedding march in ragtime" and other songs: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of battlefield at night / Starmer.

When the Lusitania went down

by Charles McCarron and Nat. Vincent. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisements for other songs: p. [6]

When the lilies bloom in France again

words by Robert Levenson ; music by George L. Cobb. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other songs: p. 2-3. Advertisement for a magazine: p. [4] Cover illustration: a garden, with lilies in foreground / Starmer.

When the kaiser does the goose-step to a good old American rag

lyric by Jack Frost ; music by Harold Neander. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "If you've never been in dreamland" and other songs, printed in green ink: p. [4] Cover illustration: caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm, printed in red and green ink.

When the kaiser does the goose-step to a good old American rag

lyric by Jack Frost ; music by Harold Neander. For voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "If you've never been in dreamland" and other songs, printed in green ink: p. [4] Cover illustration: caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm, printed in red and green ink.

When the fleet comes sailing home

lyric by Carl M. Legg ; music by T. Jay Flanagan. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for other music: p. [4] Cover illustration: two women and a boy waving to approaching ships.

When the eagle screams, hurrah!: song

by Edmond Dallas. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: Gen. John J. Pershing. Cover illustration: drawing of American eagle / ESF.

When the eagle screams, hurrah!: song

by Edmond Dallas. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Dedicated to: Gen. John J. Pershing. Cover illustration: drawing of American eagle / ESF.

When the eagle flaps his wings

words by C. Francis Riesner ; music by Thos. L. McCarey. For voice and piano. Caption title. Pages 1-2 are unnumbered. Cover illustration: drawing of American eagle and Kaiser Wilhelm / W. R. Cameron.

When the boys from Dixie eat the melon on the Rhine

words by Alfred Bryan ; music by Ernest Breuer. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Advertisement for "Hawaiian Nights", printed in blue ink: p. [4] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers carrying watermelon from a ship, printed in red and blue ink / Barbelle.

When the boys come sailing home!: march

lyric by Helen Abert ; music by John Philip Sousa. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Advertisement for another song: p. [8] Cover illustration: photograph of a ship / E. Muller Jr.

When the boys come sailing home: song

words and music by Charles Govoni. March for voice and piano. Cover title. Cover illustration: a crowd welcoming a ship back to the United States.

When the boys come sailing home

words by R.N. Lister ; music by Elise Salisbury Lister. For voice and piano with chorus for male or mixed voices. Caption title. "Dedicated to and sung by the Lotus Male Quartette, Boston"--Cover. Advertisement for another song: p. [6] Cover illustration: photograph of the Lotus Male Quartette.

When the boys come marching home

words by Jamie Kelly ; music by William Cahill. March for voice and piano. Caption title. Introduced by: Jamie Kelly. Advertisements for other music: p. [2]-[6] Cover illustration: photograph of Jamie Kelly.

When the boys come home

When the boys come home

Brown University

words by John Hay ; music by Oley Speaks. March for low voice and piano in B♭ major. Cover title. Advertisement for "My homeland" and three other songs: p. [8] Cover illustration: drawing of soldiers marching / R. Van Burent [?] Also published for high voice and piano in E♭ major and medium voice and piano in C major.